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Windows 7: Disk Management will not create a partition in unallocated space

I setup a separate page file many years ago when I first started multibooting with multiple HDDs, until recently I had other OS's on the HDD and tried to keep the Pagefile on a separate HDD, these are now history and as you say the current Pagefile serves no useful purpose as configured. I am now getting to grips with virtual machines rather than multi-booting, I do keep a Ubuntu 13.04 OS on a 32Gb USB 3 stick for emergencies.

I am shooting in the dark, hoping to hit the target somehow. That way I won't be crestfallen.

Download and run HDD Lowlevel Format Tool version 4.4 -Windows Executable (works without installation) - from HDDGURU: HDD LLF Low Level Format Tool and low level format the calcitrant HDD. Do a full format. Be careful to select the correct drive. If LL Format is successful, then try regular format with Windows. Needless to say, doing that doing LLF you will lose all data on that drive.

I setup a separate page file many years ago when I first started multibooting with multiple HDDs, until recently I had other OS's on the HDD and tried to keep the Pagefile on a separate HDD, these are now history and as you say the current Pagefile serves no useful purpose as configured. I am now getting to grips with virtual machines rather than multi-booting, I do keep a Ubuntu 13.04 OS on a 32Gb USB 3 stick for emergencies.

It is always a good idea to have a few Linux distros for emergencies. My preferred stick is this one - and it fits even on a 1GB stick.

Thank you all for your advice, I have installed a dual boot of Win 7 on the SSD, Disk Management works perfectly in the new installation. It is obvious that Disk Management is corrupted in the first installation, I think this must have happened during the uninstall of Win 8 Preview which seemed to have its hooks into a lot of places in the Disk system.
From now on any previews or applications will be tried in VirtualBox. Although I have overcome my problem, I have not been able to establish what is precisely amiss in the first installation.

Disk Management will not create a partition in unallocated space

Unallocated Space in Disk ManagementHello,
I have installed Win7 Ultimate (x86) on my 350GB SATA HDD.(2 partitions NTFS) and one old IDE HDD is used as slave (two partitions NTFS) (both disks MBR) (OLD HDD has WinXP Pro installed)
Win 7 disk management shows 8mb and 9mb space as unallocated at the end of partitions (on both HDD)....

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Unallocated disk space error, Can not partition volume spacehello,
I recently formated my desktop, I have everything saved on the (F) partition, and i formatted the primary partition (C) which leaves me with huge chunk of Unallocated space that is unable to use. Everytime i try to create a new partition, it says that space is not enough ( i even tried...

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When I...

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Failed to create partition : no unallocated spaceThis is my first thread.. sorry for my bad english
Yesterday I tried making partitions in my hard disk, and I failed
Here's what I did:
1. run compmgmt.msc
2. Shrink C: drive
3. my hard disk' capacity shrunk from 451GB to 260GB
4. an error window appeared ("I/O device error" I think)
5. it...

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